Metaphysical art

The Pittura Metafisica ( metaphysical painting) is an Italian flow of painting that developed from about 1910 and lasted until the mid -1920s. The name comes from metaphysics, which means the study of the reasons and contexts of beings. In 1917, Giorgio de Chirico and his brother Alberto Savinio and Futurist Carlo Carrà was founded the Scuola Metafisica in Ferrara.

Characteristic

As a characteristic of the Pittura Metafisica can be said that the supernatural, which is applicable only in acts of thinking to knower and the spiritual sense lying about the world beyond, the transcendent, to a visual system. The image content sequences are often beyond the sensual Perceptible and a second mysterious reality hidden behind the visible things.

Representation

Shown is the painting of the Pittura Metafisica in the form of almost stage-like, mostly deserted places. Altered proportions, unrealistic colors and the incorrect reproduction of light and shadow, as well as the use of multiple vanishing points characterize this genre. Due to the lack of aerial perspective appear as numerous paintings in a vacuum. A connection is made ​​to the contradictory content through the often depicted transvaluation of existing values ​​.

Representative

Three well-known representative of the Pittura metafisica were:

  • Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978)
  • Carlo Carrà (1881 - 1966)
  • Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964)
  • Style in painting
  • Modern Art
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